Like a Tree

It was 1935, the sixth year of the Great Depression. It was not a bad year to be sixteen if you were white, middle-class, Protestant, and lucky enough to be living in Atlanta. Like a Tree is the story of the Krueger family and how they coped with the spirit-breaking years of the 1930s. In a larger context, it is about the South's white liberal minority, who worked quietly and largely underground fighting prejudice, segregation, and ignorance to emancipate future generations.